The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-15
ohio Republicans.


CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 10.-The
opening of the campaign by the Re
publicans at this place to-day brought
out a great throng of people. Gov
ernor Foraker delivered long address
which was to considerable extent an
answer to the speech of his competitor,
Mr.. Powell. He first alluded to the
matter Of state finance, claiming that
his administration began with $500, 900
less in the treasury than the preceding
administration of Governor Hoadley,
and yet by proper management the
present administration has not only
met all obligations, but has increased
the revenue by causing an increase OF
the valuation of property for taxation
and has reduced the annual interest
charged by SS7 200. He referred to the
election frauds during the previous adj
ministratiOn in Columbus and Cincin-
natl; and to the election of Senator
Payne as showing the tendency of that
administration to methods that were
hurtful to the state and claimed under
this administration some OF the per
petratorA of these frauds have been
punished and election laws have been
passed which render their repetition
well nigh impossible. Continuing
on state affairs, he cited the
establishment of soldiers and
sailors home, as an instance
of fair dealing with that deserving class
the soldiers of the war. Referring
to Mr.. Powel's suggestion that the Re-
publican State Executive Committee
had been organized with the purpose
of wrecking General Sherman's Presi-
Dental train, he said Mr.. Powell
ought to dismiss all snch fears so far
as Ohio Republicans are concerned, for
said he, Senator Sherman has been put
on sure train with a free pass in his
own name, and 1 do not know of
any one from the river to
the lake who wishes to take
no such train wreckers to avoid as
Allen G.. Thurman can give an account
of. He devoted considerable space to
President Cleveland, but denied that
he had made any personal attack upon
him. He had to deal with his public
accounts, and while it was not to be
expected that Republicans would be
pleased with the Presidents course
upon questions on which the parties
are at issue, there were old matters in
which their past aspirations have been
disappointed. Republicans did not ex-
pect that President Cleveland would
make false pretense of ignoring the
just claims of his party except in so far
as they could be recognized through the
despicable policy of removing only Of
fensive partisans, and that by ad
claim of civil service reform, he would
bring upon that worthy cause
as he has done, an odium
that has set it back for
years in public appreciation to the
great detriment of the whole country.
He claimed there was still greater dis
appointment in the revival of Presi-
dent Cleveland, of the animosities of
the war, which had almost died out, in
epithets "tramps," ''paupers, 'pen-
sion grabbers," and the like by politi-
clans and political newspapers. He
charged that Cleveland was re-
sponsible for this, because his
policy had been to make it
appear that after all there was nothing
very seriously wrong about secession
and rebellion. He charged that the
course was mischievous, especially
people to look upon the acts of the
loyal people of the North which are not
in accord with the President in this re-
spect, as acts of hostility toward the
South. The people of the South, he
said. want truth, and their apprecia-
tiOn will not be greater for those
who mislead them about it.
That truth, he said, is
whole land, and the people of every
section on the basis of a complete re-
cognition and acceptance of all the
fruits and result of the war. Hence,
they cannot consent to recognize any
act that indicates a changed estimate of
the ideas upon which the Confederacy
was based, nor can they listen to harsh
criticism of our soldiers or the proposi-
ton to surrender in the way it was
proposed the rebel battleflags. Great
as this country Is, it has room for but
one flag, the stars and stripes. The
great duty of this hour, then, said he,
is to put down the man and party who
have flung into our faces these Offen-
sive and reasonable ideas. Speaking
of the tariff, he made the assertion
that while there are many protection
lists in the Democratic party, yet
the party, as such, has been and
is now, essentially a free trade
party. He said that the issue in Ohio
as fixed by the platform was fairly be
tween prOtectionists and free trade
Referring to Mr.. Powell's statement
that the Democratic party had never
made a land grant to a railroad, he
said, the records show that between
1850 and 1861, during Democratic adj
ministrations, forty-three congress
sional grants to railroads had been
made, aggregating $4,000, 900 acres, or
about three-lifths of all the lands that
had been granted to railroads. He
then went on at great length to argue
in favor of protection, saying its object
is to overcome the inequality of con-
ditions which arise mainly from wages
paid for labor. He claimed that the
prosperity of this country was largely
due to the protective policy.